The trishaw was introduced to Singapore after the surrender of the British in 1942. After the end of the war, the trishaw continued to be a popular...

The F4F and FM Wildcat aircraft was the US Navy's front-line fighter in the early days of WWII. This iconic aircraft was designed and produced by G...

The Grumman J2F Duck formed the backbone of America’s over water utility squadrons from 1934 until beyond WWII, setting various aviation records du...

Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet is the nation’s most prominent anti-noise organization, focusing on excessive noise from motorcycl...

The Hawker Hurricane has rightly earned its place in military aviation annals. Although only preceding the Spitfire by four months in its prototypi...

Built in the turn of the twentieth century, the Hejaz Railway was initially mocked in Europe as a wildly improbable scheme. Still used partially in...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 37,133 people lost their lives in accidents on U.S. roadways in 2017 1. Th...

This book examines the donor-donee issue in the context of the effort to reauthorize federal surface transportation programs with a focus on the qu...

Covered bridges used to cover the American landscape from coast to coast. However, because of various factors including neglect, arson, vandalism, ...

This is the remarkable story of an Indian Maharaja's passion for flight, and his contributions to the early commercial air routes to southeast Asia...

In The Great Escape and Papillon, Steve McQueen embodied the tough guy on the run from captivity and injustice. But when it comes to toughness, McQ...

This book gives a thorough introduction and description of most aspects related to the operation of ships in polar and ice-covered waters. The subj...

Bat Conroy-cut him and he'd bleed ink, he's a born newspaperman. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid-the greatest American journalists...

Since the early 1990s, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have operated on a limited basis in the National Airspace System (NAS). Until recently, UAS ...

Federal assistance to public transportation is provided primarily through the public transportation program administered by the Department of Trans...

n Kenny’s words: I have compiled my lifelong history with cars, trucks, tractors; you name it. I will warn you, working on your car and feeling emp...

This is a heart-warming collection of memories and snapshots of ordinary New Zealanders and their cars from the 1950s through to the 1980s, forming...